Jane H. Davidson
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Jane H. Davidson is an American mechanical engineer whose research involves renewable energy, thermal energy storage, alternative fuel, and solar-powered carbon capture and storage for the energy needs of homes, workplaces, and vehicles. She is a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Minnesota, where she directs the Solar Energy Laboratory,[1] and is the former Ronald L. and Janet A. Christenson chair of renewable energy at the university.[2]
Davidson majored in Engineering Science and Mechanics at the University of Tennessee, where she earned a bachelor's degree in 1975 and a master's degree in 1976. She completed a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering at Duke University in 1984.[1] Davidson was a class of 1984 member of the engineering honor society Tau Beta Pi.[2] She was also a member of Sigma Xi, a scientific research society. [2]
She has worked as a researcher at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Research Triangle Institute, and as a faculty member at the University of Delaware and Colorado State University. She moved to the University of Minnesota in 1993 and worked as a mechanical engineering professor until her retirement in 2022.[2] She was an editor and associate editor for ASME's Journal of Solar Energy Engineering between 1992-2005.[2]
